New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has stood behind Donald Trump – and now he's standing behind his wife Mary Pat by insisting she didn't roll her eyes at Trump on Tuesday.

'It just was not an eye roll,' he told reporters on Thursday.

Trump said after his five-state primary sweep that Hillary Clinton would only be getting 5 per cent of the vote if it weren't for playing the 'woman' card. Mary Pat Christie was standing on stage behind him, in full view of TV cameras.

She immediately looked downward in what pundits and the blogosphere concluded was a nervous look of disapproval.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie insisted on Thursday that his wife wasn't rolling her eyes at Donald Trump Tuesday night when the billionaire threw shade at Hillary Clinton

Mary Pat Christie appeared to roll her eyes at Donald Trump but the governor told reporters they were making something out of nothing

Mrs Christie looked displeased when Trump said Hillary Clinton had nothing to recommend her other than 'playing the woman card'

The moment – which naysayers claimed revealed dissent from within Trump's inner circle over the gender-issue attack – went viral and got played repeatedly in slow motion on cable networks.